EVERYONE KNEW HIS WALTZES – Olivier Métra / The son of an actor that had become music composer.

When you live between waltzes and operettas.

You can’t come all the way to this land and not go for a tour of the champagne houses, between Mumm, Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardin https://www.veuveclicquot.com/it-it and Taittinger. All its houses are lined up for you tour and taste. Every single French King (from 987 up in the 19th century), was crowned right at its Cathedral (before you enter, see if you can find the Smiling Angel, in the north portal of the west facade). In Reims, next to the Pommery Caves, you can find Villa Demoiselle (a gorgeous mansion built at the start of the 20th century, during the transition between art nouveau and art deco). Here was born a man lover of waltzes and operettas.

Everyone knew his waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and quadrilles. Of all French composers of his his time, he was one of the most popular. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7qWzc6ZVXA He was born in Reims into a June day, 1830, becoming a French composer and conductor. OLIVIER METRA, with his father, he began his actor career at a very early age. In addition, he learned the violin and played from the age of 19 years, and (on the advice of an musician), he followed the lessons at the Conservatoire de Paris. From 1855 he conducted the orchestra of the Bal Mabille (uring this period he acquired great popularity thanks to many waltzes). From 1872 to 1877, he conducted the bals of the orchestra of the Folies Bergère. His monumental tomb at Bois-le-Roi (Île-de-France region, in north-central France), is adorned with a bust by Antonin Mercié.

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